The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Reversal of electronic substituent effects in the retro-Diels-Alder reaction. A charge neutral analog of oxyanion-accelerated cycloreversion

P Nanjappan, AW Czarnik

Index: Nanjappan, Palaniappan; Czarnik, Anthony W. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1986 , vol. 51, # 14 p. 2851 - 2853

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Abstract

Summary: The retro-Diels-Alder reaction of anthracene cycloadducts is influenced by dienophile substituents in the following ways:(1) electron-withdrawing groups increase the rate of the reaction;(2) strongly conjugating substituents make the reaction much faster ...